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How to display permissions again if user selects "Deny & dont ask again" without reinstalling the app?

On Android 6.0 and above it requires devs to manually display the check permissions screen for the user to select or deny. However after 1 deny, it then gives the option to "Deny & don't ask again".

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If the user accidently clicks the 3rd option, is it possible to display the permissions programmatically, without reinstalling the app?

Solution

  • Permissions are something that you need to check before every time you want to access the device's components like camera/storage. In case the user clicks on the option "Deny and Don't ask again" making them reinstall the app does not make any sense and is a very bad practice.

    Instead, you need to show them an alert dialogue that consists of instructions about how they can enable the permission they need to by navigating to setting -> app setting -> app name -> permission and allow the permission. Since they can always change the permission setting from the user's phone setting app.